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🟡 Semafor Tech: A coda to code
In this edition, how vibe coding is changing Silicon Valley, and the corporate espionage saga between payroll companies Deel and Rippling continues.
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Tech got played by the Musk-Trump bromance, but average Americans will pay the price
The US innovation ecosystem has been gutted by DOGE cuts and the White House targeting of foreigners, hurting American prosperity.
Reuters/Nathan Howard
The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale
As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources?
Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images
The Rippling and Deel spy saga takes a turn with new allegations
Deel claims a Rippling employee posed as a customer and stole proprietary information.
Rippling founder Parker Conrad. TechCrunch/Flickr/CC BY 2.0.
Vibe coding will bring software closer to users
In a few years, creating a complex piece of software may be something third graders do. And that could mean developers will get much closer to the end-users of their products.
Emilija Manevska/Getty
How vibe coding is tipping Silicon Valley’s scales of power
The rise of AI coding assistants puts software development into the hands of anyone with a good idea, with the next unicorn founder possibly having no technical background.
Outlit co-founder Leo Paz vibe coding. Courtesy of Outlit
Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strike on Russia offers glimpse into the future of war
The audacious operation, dubbed “Russia’s Pearl Harbor,” reportedly took more than a year to plan.
Telegram/Handout via Reuters
Anthropic emerges as an adversary to Trump’s big bill
Sources familiar say the White House, angered by Anthropic’s lobbying against its chief piece of legislation, have come to view the AI company as an obstacle.
The key to AI memory is making it more human
The next big race for tech companies is perfecting their agents’ memory recall, and they’re each using a unique blend of tools to get there first.
The hottest new vibe coding startup may be a sitting duck for hackers
Lovable is accused of failing to fix security flaws that exposed information about users, a growing vulnerability as vibe coding’s popularity surges.
AI-powered fanfiction blurs political reality
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.
Jonathan Nolan’s ‘Person of Interest’ predicted AI. Westworld is helping build it.
The TV show creator and screenplay writer says he most asked about the 2010s crime drama depicting thefts of GPUs and generators to feed AI oracles.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9B valuation
The company, which implants experimental brain chips to help paralyzed patients, raised $600 million from private investors, people familiar with the matter said.
SolarWinds eyes Gulf growth in comeback
The Texas-based software company, which counts many government entities among its customers, is retooling for the age of AI.
AI leaders discuss chips, visas, and vibe coding at Semafor’s Tech summit
Anthropic’s Jack Clark, World Labs’ Fei Fei Li, and Replit’s Amjad Masad were among the leading AI figures talking to Semafor’s Reed Albergotti about the technologies of the future.
‘Marching off a cliff’: Developers at Microsoft Build question their future relevance
“Is there going to be a Build 2035, or will there not be any more developers?” a software engineering vice president attending the event told Semafor.
Tech companies are hiring fewer early career workers, report says
Big Tech and startups are hiring roughly half as many early career workers as a share of their total new hires, compared to just before the pandemic.
Nvidia CEO says US chip export controls on China are a ‘failure’
Jensen Huang said Wednesday that Washington’s limits on AI chip sales to China have only encouraged Beijing to pursue its own advanced semiconductors.
Microsoft’s Kevin Scott on why he doesn’t hire robotic humans
Scott’s “pathologically broad” curiosity keeps him tethered to humanity even amid an explosion in automation.